“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”
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“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”
“I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.”
“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”
“Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.”
“Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.”
“To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.”
“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.”
“Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.”
“The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.”
“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
“Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.”
“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”
“France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.”
“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”
“The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.”